Middlemarch, a Study of Provincial Life is a novel by Mary Anne Evans, an English writer that functioned under the title George Eliot. It had been initially printed in 8 volumes in 1871 as well as 1872. It is set in Middlemarch, a fictional English Midland city in the years 1829 to 1832 and also tells a number of unique, intertwining stories regarding several characters, like the condition of women, political reform, hypocrisy, religion, selfishness, idealism, marriage, and training. Middlemarch uses realism to depict historic events in spite of its comic components. The 1832 Reform Act, the first railways and also the arrival of King William IV. It looks at the state of medicine at the turn of the century as well as the reactionary perceptions associated with a settled society dealing with unwelcome change. Eliot wrote the two sections of the novel in completed and 1869 - 1870 it in 1871. First reviews have been mixed, though it's turned out to be widely recognized as her best and one of the best novels in English. Here is the complete text of the novel with the followings annotations: *Biographical Information: Relationship with George Lewes The critic and philosopher George Henry Lewes (1817 78) met Evans in 1851, and also by 1854 they'd chose to live together. Lewes was actually married to Agnes Jervis, though in an open marriage. Besides the 3 kids they'd together, Agnes also had 4 kids by Thornton Leigh Hunt.In July 1854, Evans and Lewes travelled to Berlin and Weimar collectively for the goal of investigation.